Security officials told about maintaining a strategic height Saur-Grave
Speaker information center of the Council of national security and defence of Ukraine (NSDC) Andriy Lysenko denied data, according to which the militia seized the Ukrainian military height Saur-Grave in the Donetsk region. " Strategic height Saur-Grave in position 12. 00 (13. 00 MSK) remained under the control of the Ukrainian military and it will not be delivered, because it is strategic, " said Lysenko, RIA " Novosti ". First Tuesday at the headquarters of the militia said that the militia DND returned the supervision of the mound. The Saur-Grave mound is the highest point of the Donetsk region (the height of 277 m), is located approximately 80 kilometres East of Donetsk. During the great Patriotic war, it became the site of bloody battles between the Soviet and German armies. In the process of the present conflict, she returned to the strategic importance of the militia fired with Saur-Grave position of security forces near the border with Russia. In addition, the height gives the opportunity to observe the route between Donetsk, Lugansk region and Russia.
10px
|